Nay Family History
Nay Name Meaning
Scottish and Irish: reduced form of McNay.English: variant of Nye.French: habitational name from
places so called in Manche and Pyrénées Atlantiques, possibly
named with Latin Nadium, from a Gaulish personal name,
Nadius.Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a
tailor or embroiderer, from a derivative of naaien ‘to sew’.Jewish (Ashkenazic): Yiddish equivalent of German Neu.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Nay
Name Distribution of Nay Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Nay families
 37 - 72  13 - 36 |
 1 - 12  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Nay families
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Nay Family Origin
Nay Emigration Information (US)
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Nay Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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